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...erosion of grades as a meaningful measure of learning.” But 70 percent of undergraduate students oppose the change in the grading system, according to a Brown Daily Herald poll taken last month.One of the organizers of today’s forum, Tristan M. D. Freeman, a member of UCS, said the students were overwhelmingly against the addition of pluses and minuses because it would increase competition. “A lot of students at Brown feel that adding pluses and minuses would increase competition for grades, especially in hard sciences,” he said. Armstrong, however...
...zooms in dramatically on a penguin’s feet. Three shots if the close-up lasts for 30 seconds or more. 2. Whenever anyone watching makes an “aww” noise. Two shots if it happens when a penguin freezes to death. 3. Whenever Morgan Freeman tells you what a penguin is thinking, or refers to penguins as “souls.” 4. Each time you pray that the penguins resort to cannibalism, just to spice up the storyline. 5 Whenever you mistake a penguin for Woody Allen. It happens more than you?...
...final and most popular work - in which Egyptian prince Tamino (Kim) is enlisted by the Queen of the Night (Farrugia) to rescue her daughter Pamina (Matthews) from a secret sect - is also about how appearances can be deceiving. And amidst all the stage pyrotechnics of the new production, Freeman's main focus has been on the singers. "If you don't change the quality of the central performances," he says, "you change nothing...
...Having first trained as an actor at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, Freeman should know. He dropped out to direct, but the experience taught him the importance of long rehearsal periods, something he has campaigned for ever since. At the now-defunct Opera Factory, he was famous for training his singers in yoga, primal screaming and Butoh dance, and his productions successfully broke down the image of a singer plonked on stage. (Musically adventurous as well, Freeman will premiere a hip-hop opera based on the life of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the ENO in September...
...Amelia Ferrugia ascends on her mechanical moon at a recent rehearsal, Freeman encourages his Queen to command the stage with her gestures ("but not Shirley Bassey ones"). Caught in the folds of her drapery below, Jaewoo Kim is coaxed to treat her presence like perfume. "Can that be more intense?" Freeman later asks. Every now and then, the director drops back to view the scene through the frame of his hands. Such details will make all the difference when his vision is unveiled, and Freeman hopes it will share with Shakespeare the quality of being "both spontaneous and inevitable...